Whatever happened to integrity?
Our politicians and, to a large degree, our media, do not seem to understand the real implications of the Joyce Affair. As Dr Simon Longstaff […]
Politics
The truth bomb that terrifies Turnbull
There is mass outrage today at the news that Turnbull has pressured the ABC to take down and censor parts of an article by Emma […]
Barnaby Joyce, religious freedom and moral outrage
The implosion of Nationals Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce’s political career, amid the growing scandal over his adulterous relationship with a female staffer […]
If you have good ratings you can do whatever you please – just ask Donald Trump, Don Burke and Barnaby Joyce.
When Malcolm Turnbull made his bizarre bonking ban pronouncement on Thursday, he did Barnaby Joyce an enormous favour. A favour which Joyce is obviously too […]
Sexual Despotism: Malcolm Turnbull’s Bonking Ban
It’s all the rage at the moment, stirring the halls of power in certain countries, and satisfying some sense of puritanical virtue. Bonking is off […]
Turnbull’s latest bag of tripe
One hardly knows where to begin. Yesterday, Head Galoot Malcolm Turnbull announced that in an effort to curb the apparent enthusiasm of his ministers for […]
Michaelia is hoping we have short memories
Michaelia Cash must have been hoping that everyone would keep looking at Barnaby when she chose to stick her head up today to spruik her […]
Assange, Judge Arbuthnot and the Arrest Warrant
Justice is an elastic concept. Like other terms in law, it has room to expand and contract. But one weakness burdens legal strictures that supposedly […]
If you throw mud it usually comes back to hit you in the face, Barnaby
During the 2016 election campaign the National Party ran a television advertisement of two women chatting and inferring that Tony Windsor was having, or had […]
George Brandis, the Rule of Law and Populism
Nothing stimulates frankness like an imminent departure from politics. From the deceptions, dissimulations and general obtuseness offered by the political craft, a person appointed to […]
Speak even if your voice shakes
In the past couple of years, we as a society have removed the stigma around some previously ‘taboo’ subjects. Assuming the Turnbull conservative government ever […]
Why are our politicians held to much lower standards than the rest of us?
Why are our politicians held to much lower standards than the rest of us? In what workplace would the married boss promoting his pregnant girlfriend […]
You may have to reconsider your reality, Scott
When Scott Morrison was asked how he could regain voters’ interest and trust, he replied “Just by being direct and honest about how you see […]
Barnaby Joyce, Sex and Finance
The insatiable appetite of Anglophone cultures for the prurient is of a different order to others. But it is an appetite tinged by horror, squeamishness […]
Turnbull’s Joyce will cost him dearly.
“There’s no-one more Australian than Barnaby Joyce”, blusters Malcolm Turnbull, his fair-weather defender in happier – well – slightly less miserable times last November when […]